jasonbourne71
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| Analog vs Digital on albums from the 60's and 90's Analog pressings from the 50's/60's/70's will always be more desirable and worth more than new reissuses cut from digital files. I am always on the hunt for original pressings! | |
| Audio Mirror Tubadour IV vs Lampizator Amber 4 Audio Science Review might have a test of the Audio Mirror DAC. This might be a good way to get a handle on the sound. | |
| Dumb Question I already have a Sony CD/SACD changer and a Sony Blue Ray Universal player. Optical disk playback has been a mature technology for at least twenty years. Nothing new under the sun! I doubt that in a blind test an Oppo and a Samsung can be told apa... | |
| Dumb Question @ghdprentice +1! Spending many thousands for an SACD player is a waste of money. The streamer/DAC combination is way more cost effective. Myself, I just ordered a Samsung DVD-HD841 from eBay. Plays SACD's and DVD A's plus of course CD's. Used and ... | |
| Asking for members blessings on Nagaoka MP 300 purchase Nagaoka's are moving-iron cartridges. So are USA- made Grado's. I'd get a Grado at your budget price. | |
| I need Hign compliance cartridges Hana SL (Shibata Low Compliance) for $700 is the best under $1000 mc cartridge. | |
| Question about how analog audio recording works @atmasphere : The Lincoln Walsh speaker is the closest to being a full-range driver of all the dynamic (moving voice coil in a magnetic gap) speakers. It does have a problem with frequencies above 8khz being down in level compared to the midr... | |
| Question about how analog audio recording works Compact discs do not have 1's and 0's embedded in the polycarbonate. CDs have a series of pits on an aluminum layer arrayed in a spiral pattern. A red laser follows the spiral groove from the center outward. The reflected laser light is read by a ... | |
| Why Do Cables Matter? I have never seen speaker wires move no matter how loud I cranked the stereo! | |
| Why Do Cables Matter? Wire - having no moving mechanical parts - cannot have a "sound". Ah, inquiring minds will say, what about musical instrument strings/wire? Yes, those do have a " sound" due to length/diameter and material construction. The factor here is "vibrati... | |
| Why Do Cables Matter? Only transducers have a "sound". What's a transducer inquiring minds want to know? It is a device that converts one form of energy into another form of energy. Speakers and phono cartridges are examples of transducers. Speakers convert electrical ... | |
| Why Do Cables Matter? @8th-note+1! When I wanted to add some new ICs to my system I too bought the AQ Silver Extremes (5 pairs). They look nicely made and the price was right ($90 each discounted from $450). Like buying jewelry sonic quality was not a factor in my choi... | |
| Richard Strauss Recordings Ormandy and the Philadelphia on CBS doing Zarathustra is worth a listen. I have it on LP. Mehta and the LAPO on London doing Zarathustra and the Alpine Symphony is another contender. | |
| The Richard Clark "all amps sounds the same" test Peter Walker was asked if he ever listened to his amps during development. He replied "No, because we already know when we design them how they will sound." This coming from one of the real pioneers of HiFi sound! | |
| The Richard Clark "all amps sounds the same" test This is an old thread but I will mention a test done in the UK years ago by Peter Walker of Quad fame. He used a listening panel of British hi-fi magazine reviewers to compare the sound of two amps - a Quad II tube amp and a Quad 405. Speakers wer... |